Saturday, July 28, 2007

The Army now admits that it secretly dumped 64 million pounds of nerve and mustard agents into the sea, along with 400,000 chemical-filled bombs, land mines and rockets and more than 500 tons of radioactive waste - either tossed overboard or packed into the holds of scuttled vessels.

But the rest, because of poor record keeping,we only know where about half those sites are.

"Muzikas - The Lost Jewish Music of Transylvania".This album preserves a few precious remenants of the vibrant Jewish/Gypsy music which once thrived in Hungary; & which was so tragically wiped out along with both these communities in Hitler's Holocaust...

Chinese factory-cities attract the best workers by offering food. Chinese factories run a little like factory farms, isolating new members of the cohort to prevent the spread of disease: guests eat off disposable plates and cutlery to stop them passing germs on to the factory's live-in, eat-in workers, who are subjected to intense medical scrutiny to prevent factory disease outbreaks.

–two weeks prior to the event the school, which had no electricity and a dirt floor, was redone by USAID to make it ‘acceptable” for a photo op by installing electrical wiring, HVAC, and new furniture, removing items considered objectionable such as the drinking fountains they used, and covering parts of the dirt floor with gravel so that her majesty would not get soiled and uncomfortable.

The school superintendant was interviewed afterward and was left to clean up the donut boxes and debris that their wealthy white visitors had left. He called the renovation stunt “a bit ridiculous” and questioned its real purpose and value.

After Her Majesty’s visit, the furniture, electrical outlets, and HVAC were removed by USAID.